Okay, a roll can be a bap or a teacake, but what do you call.......

[Flash In The Pan]

your evening meal?


Tea? Dinner? What?

 

[fracster]

Tea.

 

[stokecity_m]

Tea

 

[babytiger]

tea

 

[Simmotino]

Takeaway

 

[Jamesbuk]

Dinner / din-dins

 

[Daysleeper40]

Dinner

 

[sawman]

Tea.

 

[raythefab]

Tea,

 

[joxby]

its a North South divide...

Tea......obviously

 

[SimonTALM]

Supper

 

[SimonTALM]

I think this is a class thing rather than a location thing

 

[SarahLee]

Depends.

Usually dinner.
But if we've had a big meal during the day (like a Sunday roast) so the evening meal is going to be a light snack (like sandwiches) it becomes tea.

And if we're round at my mum's it's always tea.

complicated this isn't it?

 

[sawman]

I think this is a class thing rather than a location thing

So are you saying I am a lower class than you cause I call it tea time?

 

[susie]

If its a main meal its dinner
if its an earlyish sandwich type meal its tea
if its a lateish sandwich type meal its supper

and thats from a southerner living in the north

 

[david1701]

tea/dinner/supper depending

 

[SimonTALM]

So are you saying I am a lower class than you cause I call it tea time?

Well you seem to "know your place"

 

[Nick T]

It's dinner, plain and simple. Can't be tea as that's something you drink.

 

[Jimmy_Lemon]

(Breakfast, Lunch then..) Tea

 

[foggy4ever]

Tea at home, snap at work

 

[Flash In The Pan]

It's dinner, plain and simple. Can't be tea as that's something you drink.

But when I was at school we got dinner money... :shrug:

 

[babytiger]

dinner is lunchtime ........ tea is tea-time simples

 

[Marc]

Dinner, you don't go to a restaurant in the evening and say "I'm going out for tea".

 

[Nick T]

But when I was at school we got dinner money... :shrug:

Nooooo - you're getting it mixed up with lunch money! Dinner ladies though - that's a different thing!

 

[Flash In The Pan]

Nooooo - you're getting it mixed up with lunch money! Dinner ladies though - that's a different thing!

Nope, I definitely remember getting dinner money, but nowadays I'd go for lunch

 

[melevo]

tea-time

 

[Keith W]

Dinner

 

[Splog]

It's Tea

(Breakfast, Lunch then..) Tea

From Skipton ... ? I'm surprised ... Shouldn't it be:

Breakfast, Dinner then..) Tea ??? Maybe youre right ... :shrug: Dinner might be a bit west of you ....

 

[nilagin]

If it's the "main" meal of the day, then it's dinner regardless of the time it is eaten.

 

[SimonTALM]

I'll tell you all again it's supper...

unless it's formal dining when it's dinner (out for dinner, a dinner party etc)...

Tea consists of finger sandwiches and cakes and is served mid afternoon with the drink of the same name.

 

[MartynK]

Breakfast, lunch and dinner (usually about 7.30).

 

[Adamski]

Brekkie - Dinner - Tea - Supper.
Dinner is midday as in school dinners
Supper is the horlicks and crackers about 10pm.

 

[Headless Lois]

I call it tea, unless it's Out, when it's dinner. Mother in law calls it supper - to me supper is a small snack before bed.
Husband I think used to call it dinner, and now is more of a tea person.
Most definitely a class thing.

A

 

[ChrisMClark]

Dinner or tea, it varies

What's this 'break-fast' thing people are on about? Is that the same as the coffee and 3 cigarettes I have first thing?

 

[civicboy40]

tea

 

[Nod]

Informal, earlyish (6-7:30 or so), tea.
Informal but later, supper.
More formal or going out, dinner.

Mid-day meal is lunch (unless it's breakfast!).

 

[nilagin]

Dinner / din-dins

NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! don't say din-dins. The bloke at work who annoys us all calls it din-dins. I'm sorry but that's a word for 4 yr olds.:nono:

Informal, earlyish (6-7:30 or so), tea.
Informal but later, supper.
More formal or going out, dinner.
Mid-day meal is lunch (unless it's breakfast!).

That's brunch late breakfast or early lunch

Dinner as said before is the main meal at anytime of day, usually midday or early evening.
Lunch is generally some sort of snack, sandwhiches or such eaten at midday, a similar meal eaten later in the day probably between 3 and 5 is tea.
Supper is again a small meal or snack eaten at night before bed.
Having said that I generally eat 5-6 times per day. So I probably eat two breakfasts, lunch or dinner, dinner again and then a bowl of cereal again in the evening around 6:30 to 7:00 pm.

 

[neo2810]

Who really cares?

As long as you don't go to bed hungry...

 

[ShawWellPete]

tiffin

 

[Flash In The Pan]

I'll tell you all again it's supper...

I think it used to be commonly be called that up here, but that was in the days before television